Not that there’s much to love in Xorg in the first place, but dealing with hal as an intermediary ranks near the bottom on my all-time least favorite things to do. Somewhere around “walking barefoot on broken glass” and “getting a root canal.”

I for one welcome our new udev overlords. I can’t be sure at this early date that things will be better than they were with hal, but I am reasonably confident that they won’t be worse. :evil:

Ubuntu 10.04 has a Poulsbo driver modified to work with its Xserver. ;)

Also, the Desktop version isn’t excessively heavy on a modern netbook. I put it on back in April to test the final version, meaning to go back to Arch later, and two months later I’m still using it, with only a few tweaks and additions.